Article 2. The Ballon d’Or rewards the best player and the best player in the world, without distinction of the championship or nationality.
Article 3. The reference period integrates the entire season, from August 1, 2024 to August 2, 2025, international competitions included (club World Cup; Euro, Copa America and CAN in women). As a reminder, the 2024 Olympic Games counted for the previous edition.
Article 4. The Ballon d’Or is assigned according to three criteria in order of importance. 1. Individual performance, decisive and impressive character. 2. Collective performance and prize list. 3. Class and fair play.
Article 5. The Ballon d’Or is awarded by an international jury of specialized journalists, at the rate of one representative per country, the first 100 in the FIFA ranking for men and the first 50 for women. The FIFA classification taken into account is that when it comes to the publication of the lists on August 7, 2025.
Article 6. Each juror designates ten players in decreasing order of merit from the list of 30 established by writing France Footballmembers of the editorial staff of The teamat least one juror of the previous edition and the UEFA ambassadors, Luis Figo and Fabio Capello for the male trophy, Nadine Kessler for the female trophy.
Article 7. The ten cited people are respectively attributing 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points. The Ballon d’Or is assigned to the player or player with the greatest number of points.
Article 8. In case of equality, players or players are decreed by the number of quotes in first place. If equality remains, by the number of second place, then by the number of third place, etc.
Article 9. Any dispute arising from the ballot is decided by the editorial director of France Football as an organizer.
